{"id":15046,"date":"2020-01-15T10:13:13","date_gmt":"2020-01-15T10:13:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/?p=15046"},"modified":"2026-02-05T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T11:07:09","slug":"what-is-lacking-in-windows-virtual-desktop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/what-is-lacking-in-windows-virtual-desktop\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is Still Lacking in Windows Virtual Desktop (WVD)?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Microsoft\nannounced Azure Windows\nVirtual Desktop<\/a> public preview on March 21, 2019. As a provider of desktop as a\nservice<\/a>, the company worked hard in developing the scalability and\ndelivering a real multi-session virtual desktop and application experience\nrunning on any device. This is apart from the support for Windows Server Remote\nDesktop Services (RDS) desktops\/ apps, extended\nsupport for Windows 7<\/a> for the next three years along with its complete\nvirtualization solution and Office 365 ProPlus optimization.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To\nimprove the user experience, Microsoft keeps listening to its customer feedback\non Windows Virtual Desktop \u201cUserVoice\u201d forum. For you we have collected information on what the users\nexpect from the Microsoft Windows Virtual Desktop. Here we are summarizing some\nof the highly voted requirements posted by customers within the period of June\n2019 to January 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows Virtual Desktop: User Expectations<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Windows\nVirtual Desktop virtual machines (VMs)<\/a> need to be\nindependent of the Azure Active Directory Service (AD DS).<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

As of\nnow, the VMs must join an AD DS pool. One needs both Azure Active Directory AAD\n(containing user objects) and AD DS (containing computer objects) and that the\nAD DS needs to be synchronized with AAD.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ncloud-first\/cloud-only customers and small business users find it restrictive\nof not being able to join the VMs on Azure AD (AAD). Besides, the users mention\nthat AD DS is not cheap (over $100\/month) and makes it a hard sell for small\nbusinesses.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All\nthese make it a highly voted requirement.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Automatic\nscaling of session hosts<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The\ndemand for auto-scaling of session hosts has raised a flag. Although a script\nby Microsoft is available but it requires to be configured to the task\nscheduler, plus needs additional VM to run the scheduled task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This\nincreases cost and naturally not liked by users. They want the script to be\nimplemented using Azure Automation with Hybrid Runbook Worker configuration\nwithout requiring any additional VM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Azure AD security group to synchronize with app groups<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users desire that instead of assigning users to app groups, there must be an Azure AD security group synchronized with app groups- yet another high-voted demand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

 Integration\nof published virtual machines (VMs)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Users\ndo not prefer a separate portal to connect to the published VMS. Instead, they\nrequest to integrate it with the existing myapps.microsoft portal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Implement\nSingle sign-on (SSO) in a true sense<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The demand is for the double log-in (once into the portal and again while connecting) to be replaced by Single Sign-on (SSO) that enables them to securely authenticate multiple apps by one-time log in. <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passwordless\nSolution<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customers\nurge Microsoft to allow users to log in to virtual desktops\/apps using the FIDO2\nkey support. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

FIDO2\nis an open authentication standard offering tight security based on public-key\ncryptography wherein a message sender uses a recipient\u2019s public key to encrypt\na message and for decrypting the recipient\u2019s private key is used.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

At present,\na password using password hash synchronization for the virtual machines is\nrequired.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Migration\ntools for native roaming profiles<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With\nthe discontinuation of the migration scripts for native roaming profiles,\nclients with high users (600 users for example) find it difficult to migrate as\nmanual migration is not possible in such cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Local\nversion of Windows 10 multi-session <\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Interestingly\nthis too is in demand. The Non-English customers of Windows 10 multi-session\nusing the language packs face problems as these are not 100% perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows\nVirtual Desktop session controller service required in the South Africa North\nDC<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customers\nare demanding this to get rid of the high latency issues. Right now, the\nsession controller service is being managed from a US DC and customers in SA\nare affected by high latency problem. The demand is for an ideal distance of\n150ms or less for an acceptable experience.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Windows\n10 multi-session must be tuned for increased user density<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Customers\nask for it to reduce cost by bringing down the number of virtual machines.\nEspecially useful when running low volume remote apps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Various\nother customer requirements are discussed in the forum and Microsoft has\nalready responded to many of them. We have picked up those that hopefully would\nbe addressed to in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Apps4Rent, a Microsoft Solutions Partner, has been offering managed Azure solutions for more than 15 years and has served over 10,000 businesses. For any technical enquiry please feel free to contact1-646-506-9354 <\/em> at any time.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Microsoft announced Azure Windows Virtual Desktop public preview on March 21, 2019. As a provider of desktop as a service, the company worked hard in developing the scalability and delivering a real multi-session virtual desktop and application experience running on any device. This is apart from the support for Windows Server Remote Desktop Services (RDS) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1167],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-windows-virtual-desktop"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15046"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17490,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15046\/revisions\/17490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.clouddesktoponline.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}